D. António de S. José de Castro. Reconstrução liberal de uma biografia

Abstract

Based on the documentary elements used by him in the biographical sketch of this personality, so decisive in the success of the Portuguese anti-Napoleonic resistance, the author proposes to emphasize, with some concrete examples, how much the historical profile of this antisitis remained, for reasons of mere sectarian politics , surgically at the mercy of its systematic disfigurement by the followers of the radical liberal sector, committed and naturally opposed to any attempt at reformist evolution and illustrated by the institutional legality in force. A replica and reflection – after all – of what, in terms of historical memory, was intended with king John VI, a statesman only late and still incompletely rescued from the incomprehension and injustice of the assessments to which he was voted.